Cao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cao"

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

State of Cao

Wikipedia

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Cao County

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 曹 (Cáo).

Proper noun

Cao

1. (historical) A state of ancient China during the Zhou dynasty.
2. A county in Heze Prefecture, Shandong, China.
3. A surname.

Anagrams

• AOC, COA, CoA, OAC, coa, oca

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Cao.

Proper noun

Cao m anim (female equivalent Caová)

1. a surname from Vietnamese

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	Cao	Caové
genitive	Caa	Caů
dative	Caovi	Caům
accusative	Caa	Cay
vocative	Cao	Caové
locative	Caovi	Caech
instrumental	Caem	Cay

Declension of Cao (masculine animate in -o)

Further reading

• “Cao”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Galician

Etymology

From cao (“white-haired”), archaic form of cano, from Latin canus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkao̯/

Proper noun

Cao

1. a surname

References

• “Cao” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “Cao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Cao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 高.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaːw˧˧]
• Homophones: cao, cau

Proper noun

Cao • (高)

1. a surname from Chinese
2. a male given name from Chinese